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Should I Go To Graduate Student Conferences?

By Karen Kelsky | June 19, 2012

Today’s post is a Special Request post for Andy, and many other readers, who have asked, “Should I go to a graduate student conference?” The answer is, yes, once.  And after that, no. The lines that “count” on your cv for tenure track jobs are … [Read more...] about Should I Go To Graduate Student Conferences?

Filed Under: Strategizing Your Success in Academia

What’s It Like to Work With The Professor? Information for the Curious

By Karen Kelsky | May 3, 2012

I thought I’d take a moment and write a brief post on what working with me actually entails, for the benefit of anyone who has been contemplating it. I know that reaching out for help in your career can feel awkward and kind of scary, and so I want … [Read more...] about What’s It Like to Work With The Professor? Information for the Curious

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: Information about Dr. Karen

Many Joys of the Videoconference Interview (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | March 13, 2012

This guest post is by a client who is a 2012 Ph.D. in  Romance Languages and Literature.   She wrote last week to tell me of her success in scoring a top-ranked multi-year fellowship.  In the email she alluded to a catastrophic skype interview. … [Read more...] about Many Joys of the Videoconference Interview (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia Tagged With: dealing with videoconferencing, the skype interview, video interview

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 "Karen is hilarious and gives excellent advice" ~ US workshop participant Kel Weinhold and I regularly speak on university campuses and at disciplinary association meetings. For bio and promotional photos please see here. *Of course, during … [Read more...] about University Workshops

Dealing With the Informal Conference “Chat”

By Karen Kelsky | November 9, 2011

Today's post is a Special Request Post for Cynthia, who wishes to know how she should deal with an invitation from a search committee member to meet and “chat” informally at an upcoming conference. These invitations are evil. Search committees … [Read more...] about Dealing With the Informal Conference “Chat”

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia

On To The Conference Interview!

By Karen Kelsky | November 2, 2011

(This post is an update of an earlier post, "How Not To Fuck Up Your Conference Interview."  ) You have submitted your cover letter, your c.v., and your recommendations. And lo! You've been long short-listed, and invited for a conference interview! … [Read more...] about On To The Conference Interview!

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, What Not To Wear Tagged With: first round academic interview, the academic job search, the conference interview

How Not to F**k Up Your Conference Interview

By Karen Kelsky | August 15, 2011

(Monday Post Category:  Getting You Into and Out of Graduate School) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [Today's post is an excerpt from "Taming The Academic Job Market: The Professor's Guide."  The Guide is on sale in The … [Read more...] about How Not to F**k Up Your Conference Interview

Filed Under: How to Interview, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: how to prepare for the conference interview, how to rock the conference interview, preparing for your conference interview, the conference interview, what should I do for a conference interview

How-To(sday): How to Write a Paper or Conference Proposal Abstract

By Karen Kelsky | July 12, 2011

Tuesdays I will occasionally feature "How-To(sday)" posts,  short  guides to certain genres of academic writing.  I'm happy to take requests for these. Just email me at gettenure@gmail.com. Today we look at the paper/conference … [Read more...] about How-To(sday): How to Write a Paper or Conference Proposal Abstract

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing Tagged With: how to write a proposal, how to write an abstract, humanities abstract, humanities paper proposal, writing an abstract

How To Write A Book Proposal

By Karen Kelsky | July 2, 2015

You all know that the book proposal is the cornerstone to a successful tenure track career in most areas of the humanities and social sciences. Sure, some parts of psychology and economics and other fields are not book-based, but basically, the law … [Read more...] about How To Write A Book Proposal

Filed Under: Book Proposals and Contracts, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It Tagged With: how to sell an academic book, how to write an academic book proposal, humanities book proposal, selling an academic book, writing for an academic press

Buy My Book!

By Karen Kelsky | April 10, 2015

Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form--only $11.40!  Available for pre-order now--comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students in your life! For bulk orders for use … [Read more...] about Buy My Book!

Filed Under: Advising Advice, Alt-University Critique, Bad Advisors and Good Mentors, Book Proposals and Contracts, Graduate Student Concerns, How To Build Your Tenure File, How To Choose and Manage Recommenders, How To Do Conferences, How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, How To Write CVs, International Perspectives, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Mental Health and Academia, Negotiating Offers, Ph.D. Poverty, Post-Ac Job Search, Postdoc Issues, Promote Yourself!, Publishing Issues, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Resumes & Postac Docs, Shame, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Teaching and Research Statements, Teaching Portfolios, Tenure--How To Get It, The Campus Visit, What Not To Wear, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

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